SOLAR POWERED CAR: Process Journal

Process Journal:

Day 1: Today we drew the car on a piece of paper.

We also desinged the mechanism and the placment of the the gears.

The teacher acepted it and told us it was good.

Day 2: We forgot the materials so we basicly joked

and laughed all day long so we did nothing at all today.

Day 3 : Aldo brought a pathetic small toy car.

We unscrewed the the screwes and removed the top metal part.

Then we ripped out the cheap plastic engine.

Day 4: Today we attached the pre-desinged wheel axis on the front of the car and the back wheels and put the engine and gears in place. We figured ou the wheels spun but wobbled.

There was a piece of plastic that was preventing the car from moving corectly.

Day 5: I brought a switchblade to cut of the plastic. Mrs. Lemley didnt let me use it so I used a paper knife to cut of the plastic. It orked but the wheels still wobbled.

We tried to make a tighter atachment but it still didnt work so we decided to start from scratch.

Day 6: Jeffrey brought a red RC car that we took apart. We began to make it lighter by choping of pieces of plastic. Jeferey said he was gonna take it home and conect the wiresto a large solar pannel.

Day 7: Jefferey had the car bu he didn't come so we did nothing.

Day 8: Jeffrey came back with a working car that we could use. We spent the whole class testing it

Day 9: Mrs. Lemley she didnt aprove our magnificent car. We started from scrath. Sebastian joined our group.

Day 10: We made a new car structure with cardboard, tape and pieces of our other 2 cars. We used Sebastians engine on our car, pasted it with the glue gun but it didnt work so we tried another engine. It worked but not on the car.

Day 11: We brought a soddering ron and Attatched the wires onto the car. It worked on the car but I broke it with glue.